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AIBU?

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“Please have lunch ready for 1pm. Thankyou.”

838 replies

diydh · 21/12/2021 16:22

I’m interested to know if anyone else’s husband would say this in the morning before disappearing into his office for several hours. Please be honest.

YABU - yes, fair enough
YANBU - no, he is being quite bossy

OP posts:
LazyName · 23/12/2021 06:38

@PoloMintHum

I think your life sounds idyllic! You get everything paid for, no stress of working, paying bills etc. He has politely asked for lunch at 1pm.

I'm sure you have your own stresses, but seriously, you are very lucky not to have to work and he doesnt sound like a bad man.

If you don't want to do the home/kids stuff then you could work instead.

This!! Sounds like your therapist is the problem tbh
RachaelN · 23/12/2021 07:12

"Absolutely darling! I'll put the divorce papers on the side for you."
Grin

Dibbydoos · 23/12/2021 08:01

Is he planning anything? I'd ask him why? If I was a bit pd off, I'd also why don't you pick up a mackies/kfc etc...!

My son started to ask me why I don't have tea on the table when he gets home (been working with Pakistani guys whose wives don't work. I said, I get up, take you to work. Sort the dogs out. Do my work, rush everything cos I have to then pick you up. Get your own tea.

girlmom21 · 23/12/2021 08:36

@Dibbydoos

Is he planning anything? I'd ask him why? If I was a bit pd off, I'd also why don't you pick up a mackies/kfc etc...!

My son started to ask me why I don't have tea on the table when he gets home (been working with Pakistani guys whose wives don't work. I said, I get up, take you to work. Sort the dogs out. Do my work, rush everything cos I have to then pick you up. Get your own tea.

Tell him to bloody learn to drive and he can get home and cook tea for you!
AstroBunny · 23/12/2021 08:44

@RachaelN

"Absolutely darling! I'll put the divorce papers on the side for you." Grin
And good luck to the OP with paying all the mortgage and bills when her DH’s salary is no longer supporting her 🙄
Bartonzam · 23/12/2021 09:05

I would reply saying I'm not your fucking slave you twat - get your own lunch.

AstroBunny · 23/12/2021 09:12

@Bartonzam

I would reply saying I'm not your fucking slave you twat - get your own lunch.
And you don’t sound unhinged at all Confused
stmw123 · 23/12/2021 09:18

@Broads93

Tell him women have rights now, equality is hard for males to accept.
But this is one of the most unequal relationships I've ever heard of.

They aren't equal partners.
He thinks he owns her, and under the surface she is scared of him.

It's coercive and controlling.

Op, I couldn't stay! Get a job and get out.

You will never be your partners equal.

THEDEACON · 23/12/2021 12:41

He wouldn't dare!

Dillydollydingdong · 23/12/2021 14:59

He needs to roll his sleeves up and do it himself

CelestiaNoctis · 23/12/2021 15:01

Leave a sandwich in the fridge? Lol. What fancy lunch is he expecting exactly.

Luckymum82 · 23/12/2021 15:34

If he did he would only say it once!

KatherineJaneway · 23/12/2021 15:54

@PoloMintHum

I think your life sounds idyllic! You get everything paid for, no stress of working, paying bills etc. He has politely asked for lunch at 1pm.

I'm sure you have your own stresses, but seriously, you are very lucky not to have to work and he doesnt sound like a bad man.

If you don't want to do the home/kids stuff then you could work instead.

I don't think your life sounds idyllic but pp has a point. You don't work so a polite request for lunch from the breadwinner is hardly an imposition.
Melstarrynight · 23/12/2021 16:30

It was not a polite request to a wife and equal. It was more like a command to the maid!

blacksax · 23/12/2021 17:23

@PoloMintHum

I think your life sounds idyllic! You get everything paid for, no stress of working, paying bills etc. He has politely asked for lunch at 1pm.

I'm sure you have your own stresses, but seriously, you are very lucky not to have to work and he doesnt sound like a bad man.

If you don't want to do the home/kids stuff then you could work instead.

He doesn't want her to work. The OP has mentioned that already. Apparently he sees it as abandoning the children, and insulting to him, so she's been guilt-tripped into not working.

It might have been a polite request for lunch, but only in the same way that the head of a multi-national corporation politely asks an employee for something. It is a command dressed up in good manners.

MollysDolly · 23/12/2021 19:06

@Melstarrynight

It was not a polite request to a wife and equal. It was more like a command to the maid!
So what exactly does OP practically bring to the table?

She doesn't work, and not because he's told her. She doesn't want too. She's said that. And when people have said, "get a job", it's "oh no, I can't, he wouldn't like that." Or is it, that OP likes being at home (as she states) with everything paid for, and uses the excuse that her DH wouldn't like it, to deflect from her not having a reason to stay unemployed. And also it paints him a certain way. I agree with PP, it sounds like OP needs to change her therapist, who she's hanging on every word of, and seems to be the foundation of this "poor me" mindset.

Then there's the children, and childcare. All the children are in full time education.

Yet she's professionally offended that whilst she happily sits eating the food he's bought for her, she's got to plate him up some as well, because he's working.

Can you imagine that? Someone paying for all the stuff for lunch, for you and your three children to eat, and you happily take it all, whilst living in the house they also provide for you, yet when they say "I'll have my sandwich at 1 please", you act like the audacity

Yes. Quite. The audacity.

She doesn't pay off the mortgage. She doesn't pay any of the bills. Nor her clothes. Her food. Her haircuts. Her holidays. Not a penny. She and the children have everything in their lives bought and paid for, by him.

So, no, this isn't very equal at all. At DHs expense. And she's whining that he said "please make a sandwich". The bastard.

Beggars belief.

WTAFhappened123 · 23/12/2021 19:41

I would laugh out loud and tell him how funny he is Hmm

KatherineJaneway · 23/12/2021 19:49

@Melstarrynight

It was not a polite request to a wife and equal. It was more like a command to the maid!
Your projection
fetchacloth · 23/12/2021 19:59

@diydh

I’m interested to know if anyone else’s husband would say this in the morning before disappearing into his office for several hours. Please be honest.

YABU - yes, fair enough
YANBU - no, he is being quite bossy

YANBU he's being way too bossy and I wouldn't stand for it Hmm
diydh · 23/12/2021 20:19

Sorry thought the thread was finished.

MollysDolly - if you have something to say, why don’t you address it to me, rather than all this “what does she bring to the table.?”

Other than that, you have no idea. No idea at all.

OP posts:
NotTerfNorCis · 23/12/2021 20:26

this therapist seems to just call everyone a narcissist!

I'm no expert, but I thought narcissists were about 1% of the population, if that? I mean fully-fledged, draining, malignant, life-destroying individuals. If your therapist sees narcissists everywhere that sounds like projection or misdiagnosis. Also, is she allowed to diagnose people she's never met?

diydh · 23/12/2021 20:29

I have texted the therapist today and said I need to take a break (ie leave). Blamed it on the fact the move to Zoom isn’t working for me.

OP posts:
PickAChew · 23/12/2021 23:21

@MollysDolly they happen to be his children, too.

StoneofDestiny · 23/12/2021 23:30

just after we got married, his elderly grandmother who was quite a character made us sit down as a couple in front of her and she looked me in the eye and told me straight off the bat that if I was to die suddenly while my husband was displeased with me, then I would not be able to enter Paradise!

Another example of how religion is twisted as a tool to control women.

I'm curious, might have missed it, but did you make his lunch at 1.00?

Bambooshampoo · 24/12/2021 00:55

My husband does all the cooking but I would think it a douchebag move to say that to him.

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